Here it is! Seriously! I am writing in this blog for the first time since sliced bread was invented I think. I can't remember that far back.
So, summary of what's been going on here:
Classes have been up and down and sideways and in between. My Philosophy class is likely at an A-, due to an A on my first paper and a B+ on my second. I'm enjoying the class, and enjoying having my brain suffer under difficult questions such as "does every positive fact need an explanation?" Yeah. Something you literally cannot prove, yet the assumption that it is true underlies so many things about the universe. We've been doing a lot of Philosophy of Religion stuff... though lately we've been doing some Philosophy of Mind (which I'm behind on!) Interesting, painful stuff. Next semester I will be taking Political Philosophy too (as opposed to the Environmental Philosophy or Contemporary Moral Problems that I was also looking at. Stupid schedule.) which should be interesting but in the end I expect we'll just have a lot of people disagreeing about stuff. Gonna be fun though.
Math has been doing surprisingly well for my strategy for working through it. I have been to maybe 4 lectures all year, and don't actually go to the dicussions or labs except to turn in my homework. This is because everytime I go to one of these classes, I get ABSOLUTELY NOTHING out of them. I don't learn math well in a group setting, especially not in a lecture hall where the teacher just blathers on up at the board and just assumes we can all follow him. Urg. So this has been essentially an independent study course for me. What this has meant for my grade, strangely enough, was a B+ on my last exam. So I could be looking at a B, B- in the class for the semester... maybe better if I can comprehend all the stuff needed for the final. This bodes well for my goal of raising my cumulative GPA over a 3.0 by the end of this semester.
My EECS 203 (Discrete Math) class has been going... ok? I pass all the exams reasonably well, I sort of understand the work... but I don't really feel like I have a solid hold of the material and I certainly am not looking at anything above a B for the semester unless I ace the final. I don't really know what else to say about the class.... it's logic, it's algorithms, it's comparisons between things... interesting at very rare points but the rest of the time boring.
And on to the biggie, my programming class. I have did so badly on the first exam and project 3 that I'm pretty sure I am going to fail this class. Alas, I didn't realize this till after the Drop Deadline, so I'm stuck sticking it out till the end of the semester. Essentially, I need to ace the last two projects (one of which I'm waiting for a grade on) and ace the exam... and maybe I could get a C? I need a C to not have to retake it again next year. Now, what I find strange about this is the fact that I did so well in my programming class last semester and enjoyed it so much that I switched majors, but now I'm having so much trouble with this class. I mean, I certainly enjoy programming... but I'm not sure I've put in enough time and effot to grasp it? This class could easily consume my life, I think. I'll definitely be studying for it over Christmas so I can take the next class in it, or, sadly, if I have to retake it again.
ROTC is going exceedingly well. I of course have my little mishaps now and then... forgetting about stuff and being late on it being my main issue, but I feel like I have a really, really good grasp on what is going on. I'm one of the top 3 in the entire class (or so I've been told) and my job as Color Guard Liaison continues to go well. I'm definitely looking forward to next semester where the pace is going to pick up and I can really challenge myself. This first semester has been sort of an extended review for me of the stuff that I learned last year.
Another thing I've been working on the past few weeks has been the application to be an RA for next year. The written application I thought was very good, and I passed through into the interview process. I had my interview Friday morning at 0800 in the morning (blerg) and I thought it went pretty well. I should hear back by the 22nd if they were thoroughly impressed by my awesome anecdotes and explanations about the definiton of Social Justice.
Here's hoping for not paying room and board next year! Free College! Woohoo!
And on to the juicy gossip... my personal life.
Things with you know who continue to be a roller coaster of epic proportions in terms of how the situation is. I'm more or less over her, but I have my days where I realize that I really haven't moved on. Then I have my days where I'm hopeful that I have and feel better about myself. Either way, the friendship that we had last year is steadily being worked back towards.. but I need to take a step back and stop thinking that I have any sort of claim on being an important apart of her life anymore. Made the wrong assumption this past week and royally pissed her off. You live, you learn, you facepalm.
Anyway, as a very tiny few of you know, I was flirting with a girl in my building a few weeks ago, but I realized I didn't want that to go anywhere, and thus it didn't. So I'm still single. Hellloooo ladies! Cadet Kleinau looks good in uniform and is a Pokemaster.
Some other stuff I've been killing time with recently has mainly involved a little game called Warhammer 40k. It's a board game... uses models that I have to assemble and paint myself... and it's pretty popular internationally. It's like taking the model airplanes you built as a kid and adding rules for them. There's a shop about 5 minutes from my dorm that's been putting on a campaign/tournament which I've been doing decently well in... and me, Mike, and my friend John are all involved. It's a lot more interesting than video games (though I loove me some video games) because it's a lot more strategic and you get the whole real life 3-d aspect from overlooking a board. So that's maybe once a week, good way to kill a night. In fact, that's what the three of us did last night. Some people go out and party... we go play board games. Oh, and then I went and partied at Stockwell (they had a ball/dance/rave/whatchmacallit) after with the girls. Always interesting. Strange that for how bad at dancing and singing I am I like going to such things so much. >.>
Well, I should REEAAALLLY get to work. Last week before exams, and I have a paper, 3 homework projects, an ROTC exam, a Programming Project, and of course my exams for all my REAL classes. And then my semester will be over. Thank. The. Lord.
Hope you enjoyed my monumentous wall of text... and maybe we'll get back to doing this more often shall we? (I always say that.)
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